<TITLE>01. Par 1-4</TITLE>61-0119A, The Water Baptism, Golden Arrow Restaurant, Beaumont, TX, 85 min
L-1 Yes... Well, now, our--our thought is this morning that... We don't want to take too much of your time but I got... and I go do a little studying, and then I'm going to get ready pretty soon to... I got to go to dinner today with some people, and I thought before too much gets piled in... There's a lady minister coming from up in here, Brother Jack Moore's sister, that she wants to talk to me about women preachers. And I know she's to be in today, and I thought I'd get over here first.

L-2 And I... the first thing I want you all to know (This is recording is it, Leo?), is the first thing I want you all to know, see... And that's Sister Gibson and Sister Sewell and Sister Simpson. See? The question was asked me about water baptism, and I... you want to know about. I would like for you all to know first, that I have... my objective is not to try to show... like you was some master mind or knowed more than somebody else. My objective is to try to explain, the best of my knowledge by the Scriptures, what is right and wrong. And it's always been my objective to never compromise on anything that God has written, and never say it's right because somebody else says it's right. But it's got to be that way.
Now, it might be this, that in the future if you'd listen to this tape that we're talking on, it might be good I tell you the reason why. (Can you all hear me well enough?) They...

L-3 I think our heavenly Father has people made up in certain ways for His own benefit. Just like if we do things certain ways, different each time, because we have a purpose of doing it. Some time ago I was sitting down in the state of Kentucky talking to some of my brethren, and... When I go home and I can have a little time off from the meeting, there's usually a great crowds piling in. (You see?) And then I get so nervous, after all nights... See, don't get no rest at all. They just come day and night. I get real nervous. Then I'll either pick up a fishing pole and go fishing, or if it's hunting season I'll get my rifle and go hunting.
Well, rifles is one of my favorite things to fool with; shooting targets. Brother Gene here and I, he's begin hand loading now, and we're... we just love to do it. And then I had a little, what they call a model 75, a Winchester rifle .22, that's what I hunt squirrels with. Well, I hunt the squirrels at fifty yards. And at fifty yards... I keep messing with this little rifle till I can drive a tack with it at fifty yards. And the other day I put nine bullets in the same hole. That right, Brother Gene? At fifty yards with a .22 rifle? Now, well, all at once it went out.

L-4 I usually... if the squirrel is looking at me, I won't shoot him. If he's got his back turned to me I won't shoot him. He has to be setting so I can just see his eye. And if I happen to hit him low from the eye, or above the eye, I know there's something wrong with my rifle, see. So I just... I don't try to lie to myself and I just... And I don't take no more squirrels than what the law allows me to take (See?), 'cause that's right; I'm a conservationist.
But I just... I find one and he's too far away, I just let him alone. And if this one's too close to me, I'll back up to fifty yards. And I'll watch him go out and get a hickory nut and come back... he's looking at me, I just let him alone. The next time he gets one... maybe ten minutes later, after he cuts that one through, he will go get one. Maybe he's got his back turned; I wouldn't shoot him like that. So... and if he goes away, let him go; I'll hunt me another one (See?), 'cause I'm just... I...
And I love them. They're the best meat there is in the world; there's nothing compare with a gray squirrel, especially when he's cutting his beech, or hickory, or something like that.


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